Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Playing the country card:
• Study—Global subsidies for fossil fuels top $5.3 trillion (with a “t”): The study published in the journal World Development found that subsidies were $4.9 trillion in 2013 and rose to $5.3 trillion in 2015. The authors say the subsides matter because the promote fossil fuel use that harms the environment, are fiscally costly to the governments that provide them, discourage investments in energy efficiency, conservation, and renewable energy. Subsidies are inefficient at supporting low-income households.
• Forty-five feminist women to follow on Twitter:
A recent study confirmed that Twitter is dominated by white, male voices. Of the top one percent of Twitter users with the most followers, 57 percent were male and 43 percent female. In addition, Black and Asian women had the least number of followers. In light of these findings, it seems as good a time as any for folks to add more diverse voices to their feeds. Here’s 45 feminists you should hear out.
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• The real heroes of Al Gore’s new film are the thousands of activists he’s trained: The film—An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power—is now showing to many reviews that say Gore’s own activities take up too much of big-screen time. But there’s considerable attention paid to climate activists who have been influenced by Gore’s efforts. And they haven’t just been convinced by the message that something must be done about climate change, they’ve become the doers:
Since 2006, Gore’s Climate Reality Project has conducted 35 workshops training more than 12,000 activists from ages 7 to 87 representing 137 countries. Gore himself usually presents roughly half the content. These trainees then go on to give the famous slideshow at schools and community organizations. They are able to relate personally to their audience — without any of the political baggage that Gore carries everywhere with him. [...]
For example, a young disciple from the Philippines painfully recounts his experience surviving Typhoon Haiyan — and explains why he’s dedicated the rest of his life to advocating for climate action. It’s a truly powerful moment.
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• Man who wrote Pa44w*rd management rules says he was wrong: “Much of what I did I now regret.”
• Report: U.S. Wind energy jobs expected to grow by 108 percent by 2024. That would make working on wind turbines the fastest growing job category:
In California’s poverty-stricken ‘Inland Empire’ region alone, green energy since 2010 has generated 36,000 jobs and $9.6 billion in business investment. Riverside and San Bernardino counties are among the smoggiest in the state, so moving to renewables will not only benefit the economy but will also combat respiratory and heart disease produced by breathing air polluted by coal and gas emissions. Not to mention that those emissions are producing global heating that could threaten California’s prosperity.
• Here are the contents of Google’s anti-diversity manifesto, with hyperlinks and charts: The author, James Damore, has now been fired and offered a job by Julian Assange.
• New U.N. sanctions on North Korea will only work if they are implemented better than existing sanctions: In a report for the British Royal United Services Institute, Andrea Berger notes that saying the sanctions are “the strongest they have ever been may be true of their paper form, but is fiction in practice.”
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The “John Kelly takes control” meme is already dead, killed by Trump’s vacation rage-tweeting. Trump’s DOJ picks up right where W’s left off. And his DC hotel is still a black hole of emoluments. The Russia story: so fake, even Trump himself keeps falling for it.
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